The president's budget bill was six months in the making and a major legislative win from Republicans and the White House but food banks in Massachusetts are worried about its impact on them. The ...

As cuts to food assistance come down from the Trump administration, Massachusetts will create an anti-hunger task force to advise on mitigating the losses, Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday. “We’re ...

From health insurance to immigration enforcement and higher ed taxes, the WBUR newsroom took a look at how some key ...

Republicans are working to pass major federal cost cuts to the program, which provides monthly benefits to for some 40 million Americans.

With the approval of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act last week, which includes $1.2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and ...

Explore how recent federal budget cuts may hit blue states hardest and what it could mean for local economies.

Republicans reformed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in their "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," but supporters of ...

Chicopee, MASS--Roughly 113,000 western Massachusetts residents rely on SNAP benefits and as concerns around looming federal budget cuts grow bigger, the area’s food bank said they worry it ...

The unprecedented cuts to basic needs programs in the massive budget bill passed by the U.S. House and now in front of the Senate could put over 1 million low-income Massachusetts residents in ...

(WWLP) – Massachusetts farmers say they`re bracing for revenue losses due to cuts in fresh produce SNAP benefits.

A Massachusetts convenience store that was banned from taking SNAP benefits after “irregular transactions” loses federal appeals case.

SNAP is first line of defense against hunger for millions of North Carolinians. If the Senate passes the budget bill cuts ...